Dear Colleagues,
The 20th annual Social Simulation Conference (SSC 2025) will take place from 25th to 29th August 2025 at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. The conference is one of the key activities of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), aimed at promoting social simulation in Europe and elsewhere. This year’s conference is organized by the members of the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) and TPM Energy Transition Lab with a special theme: “Social simulation in a socio-technical context: embracing societies’ complexities.” A theme fitting to an engineering university that bridges engineering to the many disciplines that are present in the ESSA community. Being open minded to other perspectives is in our DNA. In other words: we welcome you wholeheartedly to Delft!
Delft is a picturesque city in the Western part of the Netherlands with lots of canals in the ancient city centre, and it is in a wider area worthwhile to discover and explore (Rotterdam, The Hague, the sea…). Delft is well connected, amongst others by train; and we encourage people to travel sustainably. An affordable option is foreseen that enables participants to follow a portion of the program online, but not to present online; this means it will not be a fully hybrid conference.
Papers
SSC 2025 seeks high-quality submissions addressing original research in the domain of social simulation. All work must be original, i.e. must not have appeared in conference proceedings, books or journals, and must not be under review for other archival conferences, books or journals. All accepted papers will be considered for publication in the proceedings (Springer), unless the author(s) choose(s) otherwise.
SSC 2025 seeks submissions for the following:
Extended Abstracts (3-4 pages; short oral presentations, can be work in progress),
Short Papers (max 10 pages, short/long oral presentation, they should be complete papers with (modelling) results and conclusions),
Long Papers (max. 12 pages; long oral presentations, should be complete papers with (modelling) results and conclusions),
Poster Abstracts (300-500 words, to be presented as a poster in the conference).
SSC25 will have the following special tracks:
ABM for social assessment and profiling
Agent-based models for healthcare systems research
Artificially Intelligent Agents in Social Agent-based Models
Blue Sky
Cities and Climate Change
Complexity in Organization, Management, and Economics
Integrating Large-Language Models and Geospatial Foundation Models to Enhance Spatial Reasoning in ABMs
Integration of circularity and life cycle assessment tools into social simulation
Modeling Transformative Change
NISE: Norms and Institutions in the Social Environment
Qual2Rule: Using qualitative data to inform behavioral rules in agent-based models
Sense & Sensibility: Modelling human deliberation and decision-making
Simulated fisheries
Social Identity Approach Modelling
Social Networks in Agent-Based Models
Social Simulation and Games
Social simulation as a method and methodology
Technical aspects of social simulation
We would like to encourage all the interested to submit their current work. Besides the special tracks there will be a general track for submission that does not fit a special track. Please observe that short papers and long papers are full papers, implying for instance the availability of results in case of simulation studies or a full-fletched model in case of conceptual work.
Are you stuck with modelling questions? Cannot decide whether your model needs more complexity, or less? Would your model benefit from a friendly ‘pick-apart’ by experts? If you are currently working on an agent-based modelling project that would benefit substantially from discussion, consider submitting your work-in-progress to the ESSA@work session at SSC25! ESSA@work is open to all interested modelers at any career stage; having a work-in-progress model is the key requirement. It will take place on Monday (the workshop day). More information on the submission procedure and what to expect from the ESSA@work session will follow in a separate call for participation, stay tuned.
Submission is open; check the website: https://ssc2025.tbm.tudelft.nl/
The submission deadline is 11th of April 2025.
More details are available at the conference website: https://ssc2025.tbm.tudelft.nl/
In case of any questions, please contact us at ssc2025@tudelft.nl
Looking forward to seeing you in Delft!
On behalf of the organizational committee
Anna
Anna Melnyk
TU Delft | TPM Energy Transition Lab
Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer
Ethics/Philosophy of Technology | Technology, Policy & Management
Building 31, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX, Delft, The Netherlands
a.melnyk@tudelft.nl
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